Main entry:

Green, Jonathan, 1939-

Title & Author:

American photography : a critical history 1945 to the present / by Jonathan Green ; pictures selected and sequenced by Jonathan Green and James Friedman.

Publication:

New York : H.N. Abrams, 1984.

Description:

247 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-237) and index.
Photography and the American imagination -- Photography as popular culture: The Family of Man -- The search for a new vision -- Aperture in the fifties: the word and the way -- The Americans: politics and alienation -- Surrogate reality -- Straight shooting in the sixties -- The sixties as subject -- The painter as photographer -- Photography as printmaking -- The new American frontier -- Only a language experiment -- The political reconstruction of photography -- Scientific realism.
Also issued online.

Summary:

This book provides the first important survey of the field. Heavily illustrated and filled with insightful and intimate detail, the book reaches back briefly to the nineteenth and the first decades of the twentieth century to establish the pantheon of native master and to define what is truly 'American' in the nation's photography.

Resources:
Inhaltsverzeichnis

ISBN:

0810918145
9780810918146

Subject:

Photography United States History.
Photographies États-Unis Histoire.
Photography.
Fotografie
United States.
USA

Form/genre:

History.
Photography, Artistic.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 18213
Call No.: TR23.G73 (PO2044)
Status: Available